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Monday, May 28, 2007
Death of a keyboard: Good-bye, old friend.
I'll be disposing of a keyboard that after approximately ten years has become something of a constant. It has survived through 3 or 4 full time computers and a couple of temps. Periodically, I would give it a deep cleaning but now the keyboard is in a state that nothing short of steam would remedy.
The keyboard came as part of an HP package that was considered a media machine at the time. A decent feel to the keystrokes, about 15 dedicated function keys that were rarely used and that one saving grace: A volume knob.
For now, I'm trying to fill that void of volume knob with an external sound card and a remote. We'll see. ¶ 5/28/2007 02:15:00 PM 0 comments
The keyboard came as part of an HP package that was considered a media machine at the time. A decent feel to the keystrokes, about 15 dedicated function keys that were rarely used and that one saving grace: A volume knob.
For now, I'm trying to fill that void of volume knob with an external sound card and a remote. We'll see. ¶ 5/28/2007 02:15:00 PM 0 comments
Sunday, May 27, 2007
The Vista from here: RAM prices drop
After rebate, $40 for a gig of DDR2 RAM. A couple of weeks ago, it was PNY gig sticks for $60 going around. The dramatic price drop on RAM we've been seeing is the result of inventory left over from Vista fizzlin'. I imagine next time manufacturers will hedge somewhat on expectations with a MS launch.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
The Vista from here: It looks like Win ME
We've been making the comparison to Windows ME for some time. Vista can readily be seen as being evolutionary with the need for refinement.
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Monday, May 21, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Chicagoist remembers native son, Studs Terkel
This came to us via way of a Google alert on the subject of the NSA suits. Terkel is one of the greats and this was a reminder of why he is still current.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Trying Vista Home Premium
AMD 64X2, 2.5 GB 533 MHZ DDR2 RAM (messin' with the dual channel?) and 250 GB SATA HDD.
We've always run the PC's with the visual effects adjusted for best performance and have done the same for Vista.
DVD play was acceptable but we'll upgrade the video and play with the Gadgets next.
By the way: Been helping someone with a new Dell notebook with 512MB of memory running Vista Basic. A real lead sled. We have a hard time believing Dell would ship something like that. ¶ 5/13/2007 09:16:00 PM 0 comments
We've always run the PC's with the visual effects adjusted for best performance and have done the same for Vista.
DVD play was acceptable but we'll upgrade the video and play with the Gadgets next.
By the way: Been helping someone with a new Dell notebook with 512MB of memory running Vista Basic. A real lead sled. We have a hard time believing Dell would ship something like that. ¶ 5/13/2007 09:16:00 PM 0 comments
Friday, May 11, 2007
5 to 10 more years of conflict says Army chief
This cannot be allowed to happen.
¶ 5/11/2007 11:22:00 PM 0 comments
Scholar jailed in Iran
The subtler, secondary message intended for internal consumption is missed in this story.
The regime wants it known that all Iranians, expatriates or not, must bend to the regime's will. ¶ 5/11/2007 09:19:00 PM 0 comments
The regime wants it known that all Iranians, expatriates or not, must bend to the regime's will. ¶ 5/11/2007 09:19:00 PM 0 comments
An American Hero
A little late with this but none the less the honor.
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MaxBlast snafu with Maxtor HDD install
Ran into this on a recent installation of a new Maxtor HDD. The software didn't recognize the HDD as being a Maxtor drive. According to support, this is because they were shipping Seagate drives branded as Maxtor and hadn't updated the accompanying software.
XP will partition and format the raw HDD with a new install. ¶ 5/11/2007 01:35:00 PM 0 comments
XP will partition and format the raw HDD with a new install. ¶ 5/11/2007 01:35:00 PM 0 comments
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Verizon squeaks past the lawyers' laugh test
But many hundreds of dollars per hour were paid to keep the lawyers from laughing.
Labels: big brother, law, privacy
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Monday, May 07, 2007
Lileks gets a change in venue
At times amusing but just couldn't get past him being an apologist for the Righty crap that ran amok.
It may be a good thing for Lileks to get reacquainted with facts.
Censorship is being thrown around about this matter. Lileks was just one of several of the Strib's columnists that got the same treatment. ¶ 5/07/2007 08:00:00 PM 0 comments
It may be a good thing for Lileks to get reacquainted with facts.
Censorship is being thrown around about this matter. Lileks was just one of several of the Strib's columnists that got the same treatment. ¶ 5/07/2007 08:00:00 PM 0 comments
Sunday, May 06, 2007
BushCo proposes immunity for telco's
Labels: big brother, BushCo, law, privacy
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Mick earns his tips on bloggingheads
Stumbles on to the essential irony of contemporary politics. We, that are left of Trotsky, delighted in Tom Wolfe deflating the Liberal elite so many years ago.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
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Labels: digg
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